Members of Boise State's recruiting class of 2011 can't believe the Broncos weren't rated No. 1 in the first ranking of the Bowl Championship Series this weekend, and they had no problem expressing their displeasure with Sporting News.

While current members of the Boise State program--players and coaching staff--were making the politically correct statements about just wanting to be No. 1 at the end of the year, these recruits haven't signed a letter of intent yet and they're some of the most rabid fans of the program.

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Jeff Worthy is a consensus three-star rated lineman out of La Habra, Calif. Four Pac-10 schools and seven BCS schools in total offered him a scholarship, but he chose the Broncos instead. He could not believe his school was behind Oklahoma and Oregon.

"I would say we should be number one because we are 2-0 against the Ducks anyway," Worthy told Sporting News. "We've gone 2-0 against them the past two years and they won the Pac-10 last year. Obviously we're better than any school in the Pac-10 based on that. We just have got to keep winning."

Jay Ajayi, a RB/DB out of Frisco, Texas, had the chance to play for Minnesota against Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin and Penn State in the Big Ten. He chose to go with the Broncos instead. He's still stunned by Sunday's news.

"You're kidding me, right?" Ajayi told Sporting News. "That is just crazy. I guess you just keep winning. That's all you can do at this point. Coach Pete (Chris Peterson) and the other coaches know what it takes to get that success that they are having. It will happen."

Regardless of the first ranking, Boise State's recruits feel like their future program will eventually get the respect it deserves. They're pretty sure that by the time they are the key players in Boise, things will be ironed out.

"I'm very fortunate to have a school like Boise State looking at me; it's pretty cool knowing that they're ranked that high," said LB Blake Renaud, who plays for one of the nation's top prep programs at De La Salle in Concord, Calif. "They expect to be in big bowl games and they expect to win them."